147-156

Updated: May 10, 2025

V. But I must recur to his defence of the profanity with which he treats sacred sentiments and subjects. After pretending, in p. 5, that he had ridiculed nothing but the things quoted above, he at length, in pp. 147-156, makes formal admission of my charge and justifies himself. The pith of his general reply is in the following, p. 152:

Francis William Newman - Phases of Faith: Passages from the History of My Creed